About this product
Pair of 1970S USA Nessen Swing Arm Chrome Table Lamps.
The circular base with smooth curved edges has a central supporting column rather than one to the side. Â The arm swings out to allow the light under the shade to be directed to where it’s required perhaps to light a book when reading or a particular object. Â When the arm is folded back on itself the shade sits exactly on top of the column which makes them perfect for bedside lamps as we have illustrated in the images.
ABOUT
About the designer from MoMA –Â After training in Germany, Von Nessen came to the United States and established Nessen Studios in New York in 1927.
He quickly earned a following among well-established modern architects, who commissioned him to design lighting and other household objects for their clients. He became one of the only major designers between the wars to concentrate on innovative lighting, and his popular table and floor lamps ended up in schools, hospitals, offices, and homes.
Von Nessen was particularly influential in developing adjustable and indirect lighting, and he favored nontraditional materials like spun aluminum, Bakelite, and fiberglass, as well as chrome plating, which was only refined in the mid–1920s. His wife, Greta Von Nessen, was the daughter of a Swedish architect he had worked with. After her husband’s death, she revived Nessen Studios and produced celebrated designs of her own, notably the Anywhere Lamp (1951).
